Re: [Talk-us] HI: Hawaii GIS Data

2009-12-05 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 5 Dec 2009, at 00:47, Scott Atwood wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: Why oh why oh why do some people insist on wasting time trying to import loads of data? Please take a read of http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2009

Re: [Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map Update

2009-11-19 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 18 Nov 2009, at 23:50, Greg Troxel wrote: --route is AFAIK not turned on in cloudmade, so those maps wouldn't be routable. If cloudmade has enabled routing, that would be good to know. (Plus there's the noname roads being big and red.) If you want them to be routable, then send a

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

2009-11-13 Thread Shaun McDonald
The semi colon approach has been a method in use for many years now, but it's generally avoided. Unfortunately we don't have database normalisation with our tagging system. The Keys must be unique. Previous version of the API allowed keys that were not unique, however nothing used it as the

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

2009-11-13 Thread Shaun McDonald
consensus to use name = first name, name_1 = second_name, name_2 = third name instead of name=first name;second name; third name? I've be adding names to motorway_junctions and I've see the semicolon format, so I started do the same myself. Richard Shaun McDonald wrote: The semi colon

Re: [Talk-us] Super Wal-Mart Tag

2009-11-13 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 13 Nov 2009, at 14:23, Ian Dees wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Kate maps2w...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: Going back to the original question, each shop should be it's own node or area, thus the problem

Re: [Talk-us] NY: I-87 Junction with I-84 in Newburgh

2009-11-02 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 2 Nov 2009, at 23:54, Richard Welty wrote: in the absence of a talk-ny list, i'm going to prefix NY State local things with NY: for now. if we get obnoxious enough, we can get pushed to our own list, right? There was a recent discussion on this. The US community isn't ready for more

Re: [Talk-us] Parking on the Street, Variable Availability Parking

2009-10-23 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 23 Oct 2009, at 18:02, Christopher Covington wrote: From the wiki, Parking spaces along streets are currently not tagged. Only parking lots of reasonable size are mapped, not every place where a car could be parked. Is there any solution to this? At, for example, the student

Re: [Talk-us] Thoughts on tagging a line of trees?

2009-10-17 Thread Shaun McDonald
barrier=hedge is what I would use. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dhedge Shaun On 17 Oct 2009, at 08:50, David ``Smith'' wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion on mapping/tagging the lines of trees that tend to be found along rural property lines? Example:

Re: [Talk-us] Thoughts on tagging a line of trees?

2009-10-17 Thread Shaun McDonald
When would that be appropriate? A link to a photo would be useful. Shaun On 17 Oct 2009, at 14:51, Anthony wrote: Along with foot=yes if appropriate? On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: barrier=hedge is what I would use. http

Re: [Talk-us] Thoughts on tagging a line of trees?

2009-10-17 Thread Shaun McDonald
the aerial, it's not clear whether or not that's the case. On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: When would that be appropriate? A link to a photo would be useful. Shaun On 17 Oct 2009, at 14:51, Anthony wrote: Along with foot=yes if appropriate

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-03 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 3 Oct 2009, at 17:42, Mike N. wrote: It needs to follow the road way to some extent, but it might be possible to simplify by reducing node count so that it doesn't exactly follow the road. In the samples I have seen, house placement is much different than the road path when

Re: [Talk-us] Restriction tagging

2009-09-29 Thread Shaun McDonald
Photos would be really, really useful for examples. On 29 Sep 2009, at 13:33, Anthony wrote: I have to admit I'm curious. What are the signs for that, and where are they? On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Nakor nakor...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am wondering how you can map that when you